Want to freak out a monkey? Create images or video of nearly-but-not-quite realistic monkeys, and they will freak right out. As Science Dailyreports, monkeys too have an “uncanny valley”. I also like how the article seems to indicate that scientists (or monkeys?) dislike (and fear?) the movie The Polar Express.

A woman in California allegedly bought Cap’n Crunch’s Crunchberries for years, under the delusion that they were a healthy cereal that contained real fruit. On discovering that “Crunchberries” are not an actual fruit, she sued. The verdict is now in, and is a victory for everybody who thinks that we ought to be able to assume that people are smart enough to identify Crunchberries as balls of coloured sugar.

It’s amazing to wander around this Internet place. It’s full of lists: 7 Twitter Tricks for Tortoises, and that sort of thing. OK — there’s nothing about Twitter for Tortoises. Yet. But it is full of lists.

But it is (unfortunately) not alone — for instance Wired magazine likes its sexy geeks, although it doesn’t have much in the way of minimal standards for geekery. And every which way you look, people are giving a “top 10″, or 20 or 12 or 5 or 7 or 40 or whatever number they end up getting to. These are most usually presented in a manner that is void of insight, humour or eloquence.

So I ask: Dear Internet, what’s with all the lists? I don’t want to read them anymore.